The basic functionality in these tag libraries is to simplify JSP development and provide automatic data binding between the view and controller layers. These tags come with JavaScript support, so you can work with them like you would the standard HTML tags (input, select, and so on).

NetUI

The NetUI name is a little misleading. Think of this tag library as NetUI-html. That makes it clearer, doesn't it? This tag library contains the tags similar to the struts-html tag library. Table 1, which comes straight from the Javadocs, shows the tags in this library. As you'll see, this library contains the standard tags that you might use with vanilla HTML development.

Note: The reason I've simply cut and paste the information from the Javadocs is because, at the time of writing this material, Apache Beehive is still in the beta stage. Therefore, some of these methods might change. Visit the Beehive documentation page for the latest Javadocs at http://incubator.apache.org/beehive/reference/taglib/index.html.